. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 195 he replied, because 1 should not have them if I did not. I tried your plan, (of raising something else to buy berries with) and we did not have, I presume, more than a peck of berries during the season, although they were plentiful in the market. I could not buy more than a quart or two at a time, and that went against the grain, my bringing up on the farm had been another kind. I could not buy them freely. It was raise them or go without. "Again, a well known agriculturist sat with me at a hotel table. He had been a far
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 195 he replied, because 1 should not have them if I did not. I tried your plan, (of raising something else to buy berries with) and we did not have, I presume, more than a peck of berries during the season, although they were plentiful in the market. I could not buy more than a quart or two at a time, and that went against the grain, my bringing up on the farm had been another kind. I could not buy them freely. It was raise them or go without. "Again, a well known agriculturist sat with me at a hotel table. He had been a farmer all his life, and is well off. For a wonder, there was some real good cheese on the table. Our friend helped himself several times. He seemed to like it very much. I said, "You do act get good cheese down your way, I guess, judging from the way you take hold of ; His reply was: "They have it at the groceries, but, to tell the truth, as we do not make cheese we do not have it on our table one week out of the ; Now this farmer lives in a house that cost at least $, and has no lack of funds ; but although evi- dently fond of cheese, he goes without it because they do not produce it. His bringing-up clings to him, and he cannot use freely what must be bought for mon- ey—don't you see? If this is the case among well-to-do farmers, who could draw their checks for thousands of dollars at any time, and have them honored—how would it be likely to be where there are two or three ways for every dollar to go? I visited such a farmer, last winter. He is not really poor, but is not yet out of debt, and said he had hard work to pay the interest and make both ends meet. His wife told me that she had tried every Spring to get her husband to set out strawberry plants. He said ; "Oh! we can buy strawberries cheaper than we can raise them;" "And now," she says, "how many do you think he bought last year? not one single quar
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